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An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub- Get Growing in Hollingdean Park!

25th Jan 2025
An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub 2025

Sign up for the next Get growing in Hollingdean Park Planting Day Sunday 9th February 2025

Wow! What an excellent turn out. 28 adults and 12 children joined Growing Hollingdean, Brighton Permaculture Trust and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership at the Hollingdean Family Hub on Sunday 12th January 2025. Together we learnt about food forests and how to plant and look after them. Then everyone came up with ideas for edible plants in the park and suggestions about where they could grow. We also enjoyed a bowl of soup with bread and a hot drink, made by Anna, the community chef, from locally grown ingredients. Delicious!

Hollingdean Park Edible Garden & Hedge

If you would like to join in the next planting days join up here. We are making the beds and planting on Sunday February 9th and Sunday March 9th. The idea is to create an edible hedge along a fence line in the main park and to make some child-friendly small beds in the play park outside the Family Hub this spring. If you would like to comment on the plans, please fill in the questionnaire here.

An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub
An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub
An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub
An excellent turn out at out Community Design Day at the Hollingdean Family Hub

Click here for all the details.

Sign up for each event via the ‘Register Now’ button; You will have to register separately for each event day for a Free lunch. Please only register adults attending. Any other questions please email rob@bhfood.org.uk or call 01273 234 810 quoting the ‘Get Growing in Hollingdean Park’ events.

Thank you to the volunteers for all your hard work to make this happen.

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Tree Guardian Jo-seph donated to the Hollingdean community a wild pear tree

2nd Mar 2024
Tree Guardian Jo-seph give the Hollingdean community a wild pear tree, Growing Hollingean, February 2024

Growing Hollingdean Volunteers, February 2024

Jo-seph donated one of his birthday presents to the community in Hollingdean this month. He and Claire planted a wild pear sapling. They had some help from Donetsk and his friend, who willingly got stuck in hammering in sturdy chestnut stakes with the post driver. The stakes and fencing will help protect the young tree from mowers. And as it grows the young tree can be attached to the stakes to help it withstand strong winds that could otherwise rock it and weaken the root system.  

Tree Guardian Jo-seph give the Hollingdean community a wild pear tree, Growing Hollingean, February 20224
Tree Guardian Jo-seph give the Hollingdean community a wild pear tree, Growing Hollingean, February 2024

Wild pears are thought to have been native in the UK since AD 995. As this one grows it will blossom beautifully in spring and tell us that winter is passing. A bit like it’s neighbour, the Hawthorn tree.

If you would like to donate a tree please contact us here.

Join us for the next Tree Guardians session on Sunday, 3rd March 2024

We also run monthly volunteer gardening sessions on the first Sunday of every month. These sessions provide practical fruit care training to volunteers, ensuring our local trees thrive. Meet 10am outside Sure Start Centre, Brentwood Road, Hollingdean Park. We look forward to meeting you.

For all the latest news on Growing Hollingdean free events and volunteering please sign up here or in the box below. Thank you to all the Growing Hollingdean volunteers who made this possible.